I was anxious to make certain that no-one in this room can say I was worried to face the media.
Advertisement
“We wanted to do well and we even believed that if we got to the quarter-final we could go beyond that”. I’m very disappointed, I didn’t see the result coming.
Arsène Wenger, the Arsenal manager, is among the list of possible candidates to replace Roy Hodgson as England manager as the Football Association undergo a global hunt for his successor. But Iceland were better on the night.
He added: “I’m sorry it’s had to end this way with another exit from the tournament”.
“I’m sure those players will live up to expectations and one day I’m sure we’ll see England do well in a tournament, I’m hoping in 2018”. “We are absolutely not ruling anyone out”, he said.
“I don’t know what I’m doing here”, Hodgson said, noting he thought his words of resignation on Monday should’ve sufficed.
Jamie Carragher has slammed the England national team for their subpar performance in Monday night’s Round of 16 defeat to Iceland at Euro2016.
The former QPR boss says that the early favourite to be the next England Manager, Gareth Southgate, only knows the “English system” of losing.
“That I think is the brief and we want to work that through, but it is an inspirational manager and management team to get the best out of a squad which has got high potential”. “This England team are capable of playing a different, more possession-based style… but there always needs to be a balance and, to me, it wasn’t there against Iceland”.
Allardyce has openly admitted in the past that the England job is something that he is interested in, after he has missed out on the position on a couple of occasions.
“In terms of the FA’s commitment, we’ll get a new management team and in the future at every tournament, every game, every half we will punch our weight”.
FA chief executive Glenn opened the press conference by assuring Hodgson that “Iceland is not your epitaph”, and confirmed that he will lead the search for a new manager alongside FA technical director Dan Ashworth and FA board member David Gill.
However, if the right man was not available by then he said former England defender Southgate would be the “obvious choice” as an interim boss – and did not rule out appointing a foreign manager.
Advertisement
“We are looking for the best person, not necessarily the best Englishman”.
